Saturday, October 22, 2022
On Saturday, October 22, 2022, Paul N. Edwards P’26, Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Stanford University, led a discussion on technological and scientific change over the 20th Century and how developments of that era have foreclosed possible futures and locked us into deeply destructive modes of existence.
This event was supported by the Strachan Donnelley Endowed Environmental Lecture Series Fund.
About Paul Edwards
Paul N. Edwards is Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Stanford University (where he also co-directs the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative), and Professor of Information and History (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan. He writes and teaches about the history and politics of climate science and climate change. Edwards is the author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010) and co-editor of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001), as well as numerous articles and other books. With Janet Vertesi, he co-edits the Infrastructures book series for MIT Press. Edwards recently served as a Lead Author for the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021).